Here are the Week 12 underdog picks

There's football in the air in the United States this weekend, that's for sure. The "college" kids really earned their pay yesterday, and the Big Daddies, whose income you actually know, are putting on the pads for important action today.

The first game of the week was Thursday night. The home 'dog won, but none of our players picked it. The good news was that it was a snow game, with heavy lake-effect snow making for a winter wonderland. Great fun to watch.

Anyway, the players in our charity underdog game have been surveying the rest of this week's field, and they are predicting that the following 'dogs (in caps) will come out with outright wins today or tomorrow night:

10.5  DALLAS at Washington - Cliff, Shoeshine Boy

8.5  TENNESSEE at Houston - Kosar19, SteveO, Buster Dog-las

7.5  INDIANAPOLIS vs. Detroit - Meow, Air,  Zen Cohac

7  NEW ENGLAND at Miami - Stephen F., Linda, Gordon, Oredogger

5.5  LAS VEGAS vs. Denver - Bad Picker, pitter patter

5.5  NEW YORK GIANTS vs. Tampa Bay - Andypdx, John

3  CHICAGO vs. Minnesota - Roger Goodell, Annie B.

3  LOS ANGELES CHARGERS vs. Baltimore (Monday, pick still due Sunday, 10:00 a.m. PST) - Portland Pandemonium, PDXileinOmaha, Andy C., Mojo

2.5  SAN FRANCISCO at Green Bay - pdxTrojan

These whelps were orphaned:

11  CAROLINA vs. Kansas City

3.5  CLEVELAND vs. Pittsburgh (Thursday, winner)

2.5  LOS ANGELES RAMS vs. Philadelphia

1  ARIZONA at Seattle

Our latest standings are here. May good fortune smile on all the balling bowsers.

UPDATE, 1:35 p.m.: Both Dallas and Tennessee win. Yikes! And the fourth quarter of the Dallas game was insane.